RCVS Knowledge has launched two online toolkits to give practitioners step-by-step support to develop their evidence-based approach to practice.

The EBVM Toolkit is designed to help practitioners answer a clinical question with the best available evidence, according to RCVS Knowledge head of library and information services, Clare Boulton.

“The EBVM Toolkit is a guide to the first three steps of EBVM: asking an answerable question, finding the best evidence to answer it, and critically appraising that evidence,” she said.

“We’ve included templates and examples from ‘real-life’ veterinary cases, so it’s applicable to daily practice.” “We hope those using the EBVM Toolkit will summarise their finding in a Knowledge Summary, so that the answer will be easily accessible for the next person who asks that question.”The second toolkit is a step-by-step guide to clinical audit. RCVS Knowledge produced the Clinical Audit Toolkit with Pam Mosedale, a veterinary surgeon and member of the RCVS Practice Standards Group, which coordinates the Practice Standards Scheme.

She said: “Clinical audit is a way for practices to find out what’s working and what could be improved on. “It gives practices and individuals the ability to monitor the quality of care given.”